Left on cutting room floor in ’24, tax committee dusts off omnibus bill provisions for another look

The last time the DFL held the House Taxes Committee chair, it was May 2024 and marathon conference committee negotiations with the Senate reached a conclusion that was both anti-climactic and something of a bold crescendo.

Anti-climactic in that the bulk of the final House tax bill was cast aside in the session’s final hours in favor of making the tax bill a 1,400-plus-page vehicle for everything else that had been tabled in the House over the previous week. But that spurred quite a dramatic finale, infuriated Republicans howling in protest as the legislation was approved along party lines with minutes to spare.

So what happened to all of those measures in the 2024 House tax bill that didn’t make it out of conference committee? Well, almost all of them have been picked up off the cutting room floor and reassembled into HF2274.

On her first day as co-chair of the House Taxes Committee after the body reached a 67-67 split on Monday, Rep. Aisha Gomez (DFL-Mpls) decided to go big. She’s sponsoring an 80-page bill full of changes to Minnesota’s tax code that looks a lot like a first offer to the committee’s co-chair, Rep. Greg Davids (R-Preston), and his fellow Republicans in negotiations over how a 2025 tax bill should look.